Hubble's View of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (Pointing 1) (IMAGE)

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Hubble's View of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy (Pointing 1)

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This image shows a small part of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, situated only about 300,000 light-years away from Earth. This is one of two different pointings of the telescope that were used in a study combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's Gaia satellite to measure the 3-D motion of stars in this galaxy.

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